Me: This will be the final 'chapter'. There is an epilogue though...

Chapters 24 But her dreams give her wings and she flies to a place where she's loved…

Sasuke's P.O.V.

After school, I rush home with Neji and the others on my tail. All day I've had the strangest feeling that something is wrong.

I can't say why, but ever since I've met Hinata I've been able to tell when something bad was going to happen; with each event leading to said girl.

That doesn't ease my weird feeling, so I run even faster.

The house is in my sight and I slow down a little as the others catch up. When I open the door and walk inside, my breath gets caught in my throat. Everything is in disarray; glass liters the floor, furniture is thrown around the room and blood stains are on the walls and some spots on the wood tiles.

I hear Sakura or Ino gasp and I feel Neji push me aside. He kneels on the floor and inspects the blood stains on the tiles. I walk next to him, and his expression changes in a strange way. The veins near his eyes become visible, and his entire body tightly stiffens, so I take a step back.

"Byakugan," he whispers.

So this is what the Byakugan really looks like.

"This is Hinata's blood," he says looking up.

"How do you know?" I ask.

Neji stands up, and walks to the kitchen. "My eyes can see. We used to be really close, and I could and can tell if anything belongs to Hinata." The rest of us follow him through the doorway and into the kitchen.

"This has to be her Mother's doing," I say, "She is the only one who could."

Everyone freezes as we look at the open door. "I'll go searching for her. The rest of you go to the police," I say.

"I'm coming with you," Neji insists. I shake my head as a no.

"You're the only other person who knows where Hinata lives. The police won't be able to help if they don't know where to go."

Neji tries to relent, but he can't argue with the truth. "Fine. But as soon as we get help, we're coming."

I nod and run out the door.

Getting through the forest is no easy task. It has a lot more shrubs, twigs, and thorns then I thought, and when I come out, I look like I've been attacked by a wild dog.

I reach her front door, and stay in my spot, unusually frightened.

I take a deep breath and reach for the doorknob. I take a step inside the blank darkness.

I walk blindly down the hall; my hands touching the walls to make sure I don't bump into anything. Unfortunately, that doesn't work.

I trip over something hard on the ground, and fall to the floor. My breath catches as I feel a warm, fowl smelling liquid underneath my fingers. I look back, and, even though it is dark, I clearly see the outlines of a face I know so well.

"Hinata!" I whisper. Moving to her side, I place her head on my lap.

"Hinata," I say into her ear. Her eyes open lightly as she says my name.

"Sasuke, I'm so glad you're here. But why?"

"I told you, Love. I promised that I wouldn't let anything happen to you. I'm just sorry that I couldn't keep that promise."

She gives me a small smile. "I knew you'd come. But it isn't safe here."

Before I can answer, the lights turn on. "She's right you know. You shouldn't be here."

I look over to the source of the voice and see Hinata's mother standing in the doorway. But what captures my gaze is the object she has in her hand: a gun.

"You like? I was saving this for a very special occasion, and what better time then now?"

She points the gun at me, and before I can do anything, she pulls the trigger. I try to move out of the way, but with Hinata in my arms, I don't get very far.

The bullet pierces my right arm with such force, it nocks me away from Hinata.

"Sasuke!"

I feel the blood rush out from the wound and stagger to get up.

"Now, now. If you just didn't move, your death would have been so much less painful."

I look up to see Hinata's mother point the gun at me again.

"This is it. Goodbye."

I close my eyes and await the pain as I hear the banging sound of the gun being fired. But instead of feeling pain, I hear the bullet pierce something else. I open my eyes to see Hinata standing in front of me.

"Sasuke…I'm so glad…I got to meet…you. You w-were…the first…p-person t-to ever…be kind t-to me," Hinata turns around to look at me. "I'll a-always love y-you."

And with that, I watch as her small body falls onto the floor.

I stand in the exact same spot though the next few minutes. No thoughts running through my head, nor any words coming from my mouth. And when I finally come to my senses, there are police all around Hinata's mother and Neji is kneeling over Hinata to inspect her wound.

"We need a doctor here, quick!"

I see men in dark suits place their hands over Hinata's body. One puts two fingers on her neck and says the two words I never wanted to hear.

"She's dead."

The horrified expression on Neji's face and the calm one on Hinata's are the last thing I see before everything goes dark.

Me: Well? What did you think?

Sasuke: How could you do that to my Hinata?

Neji: For once I agree: How could you have found the nerve to complete this?

Me: I showed you the epilogue didn't I?

Neji and Sasuke: That doesn't change anything!

Me: Drama queens